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0 pointssomehnacct37573y ago0 comments

Why does there only need to be one web villain? We've unbundled IE's horrors.

Safari is now the browser that resists web standards and an open internet for its parent company's personal gain. See: PWAs, webgl, webview.

And Chrome is now the thousand pound gorilla forcing standards nobody wants, for its parent company's personal gain. See: manifest v3, cookie security.

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mrtksn3y ago

Resisting web standards is alright, if people make standards compliant websites it will simply mean that Safari users will miss out some stuff.

The problem starts when you implement alternative standards and you have a market share to make people code for your standard. In this situation, your users don't suffer but everyone else suffer, that's what I call villain.

Check Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Exterminate strategy. This is the evil thing, making browser that doesn't adopt some web standards is not evil.

somehnacct3757OP3y ago

The market forces work the other way. If Safari can't do something, like say if it can't work with webgl 2.0 until four and a half years after every other major browser adds support, devs will avoid using it and middleware will have to maintain support for webgl 1.0 longer. This slows down adoption of web standards and affects everyone.

The only property that benefits from dragging your heels on webgl 2.0 adoption is the App Store, which could see its influence and revenue easily be cannibalized by progressive web apps using modern gpu rendering. And would you look at that, those are exactly the two web standards Safari has dragged its heels on.

mrtksn3y ago

Sure, it will have an effect but Apple's market share is tiny. If there was something great to be done with the stuff that Apple is dragging their feet to implement, we would have it on other platforms and Apple will actually be forced to act on it.

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0 pointssomehnacct37573y ago0 comments

Why does there only need to be one web villain? We've unbundled IE's horrors.

Safari is now the browser that resists web standards and an open internet for its parent company's personal gain. See: PWAs, webgl, webview.

And Chrome is now the thousand pound gorilla forcing standards nobody wants, for its parent company's personal gain. See: manifest v3, cookie security.

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mrtksn3y ago

Resisting web standards is alright, if people make standards compliant websites it will simply mean that Safari users will miss out some stuff.

Check Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Exterminate strategy. This is the evil thing, making browser that doesn't adopt some web standards is not evil.

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